You woke up dream sick in the afternoon

The black balloon was hanging over you

I left a basin by the bed

And a note for you that read

I’ll be back when you need me

Baby shoes

Burn a candle for the ones we lose

It seems like all the time we have

Is water in cupped hands

Why can’t a mother’s love be easy?

Lying on your side

You turn out the light

When darkness leaves you blind

I’ll keep an agile eye

For a fragile mind

Carry the burden of your sister’s pain

Make her whole again

It’s so much easier to hold it when

You come as a friend

Well with all our pain and our joy

What might have been

A vanishing dream

If you play like a broken toy

When you’ve come to call

On no one at all

For any saving grace

A thousands songs to sing

Comfort in promise of spring

Share in my best offering

Life is a wonderful thing

Stuck at home

A generation scared they’ll die alone

If true love that comes cheap

Isn’t ours to keep

Why do I give it out so freely?

All in your own time

Good things are hard to find

When darkness leaves you blind

I’ll keep an agile eye

For a fragile mind

Carry the burden of your sister’s pain

Make her whole again

It’s so much easier to hold it when

You come as a friend

Carry the burden of your brother’s pain

Make him whole again

It’s so much easier to hold it when

You come as a friend